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tiger kings and tiger mothers
tiger kings and tiger mothers

I’m finally ready to talk about Atlanta

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culturejayemseyAtlanta, Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, Crazy Rich Asians, Isla Vista, school shootings, mass shootings, gun control, gun violence, Black Lives Matter, racism, sexism, misogyny, fetishization, grief, Gummo, Harmony Korine, Jacob Reynolds, Nick Sutton, Jacob Sewell, Chloë Sevigny, Minari, America, American Dream, Americans, The Joy Luck Club, stories, Oriental, Dragon Lady, tiger mom, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, history, perpetual foreigner, Maggie Q, Nikita, Tiger King, Steven Yeun, The New York Times, Byrdie, sexual assault, sex trafficking, catcalling, The Onion, empathy, The Atlantic, Anne Anlin Cheng, Faith Xue, Chinese, Chinese-American, Chinese Exclusion Act, Chinese food, Museum of Chinese in America, #StopAsianHate, TikTok, Chinatown, This Land Is Your Land, Asian AmericanComment
the stolen history of new york
the stolen history of new york

Examining the stories of the people and places lost in time to uncover the legacy of slavery and colonialism in modern-day Manhattan

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culturejayemseyNew York, New York City, history, oral history, A Night of Philosophy and Ideas, colonialism, Benoît Challand, slavery, racism, anti-racism, systemic racism, Black Lives Matter, Occupy City Hall, protests, Manhattan, Mannahatta, Lenape, Walking Purchase, The Mannahatta Project, Wildlife Conservation Society, Chinatown, Spanish Harlem, Harlem, Flushing, Greenpoint, Crown Heights, linguistics, language, Endangered Language Alliance, Rivers Cosmogram, Langston Hughes, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, African-American, Dutch, immigrants, Harlem Renaissance, Great Migration, LGBTQ, El Barrio, El Museo del Barrio, Malcolm X, Puerto Rico, the Bronx, Latino, World War II, Casa Latina Music Shop, Tito Puente, Seneca Village, Seneca Village Project, Vox, Missing Chapter, Tanner's Spring, catacombs, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Catholicism, Memorial to Victims of the Injustice of the Holocaust, Holocaust, Auschwitz, Madison Square Park, Repertorio Español, Murray Hill, The Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Stonewall Inn, Pride, New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, Stonewall 50 - WorldPride NYC 2019, Gay Liberation, George Segal, Stonewall National Monument, Christopher Park, Washington Square Park, Dutch West India Company, Hangman's Elm, Astor Place, John Jacob Astor, La Plaza Cultural, art, 97 Orchard Street, Lower East Side, tenement, Little Guangdong-Hong Kong, Mott Street, Chinese Exclusion Act, Irish Hunger Memorial, Brian Tolle, Gail Wittwer-Laird, Great Irish Famine, Museum at Eldridge Street Synagogue, Greetings From Chinatown, Chinatown Ice Cream Factory, Little Fuzhou, Manhattan Bridge, Nom Wah Tea Parlor, bloody angle, Doyer Street, Wilson Tang, Wing on Wo & Co., Mei Lum, Walter Eng, the W.O.W. Project, COVID-19, coronavirus, Five Points, Gangs of New York, Triumph of the Human Spirit, Lorenzo Pace, African Burial Ground, New Amsterdam, national park, National Park Service, autonomous zone, community, justice, NYPD, Park Row, Ah Ken, 74 Wall Street, New York slave market, Atlas Obscura, The Seaman's Bank for Savings in the City of New York, Netherland Monument, The Battery, Black Gotham, Tenement Museum, Museum of Chinese in America, The 1619 Project, NYPL Community Oral History Project, NYPLComment
year in review: 2019
year in review: 2019

My year & decade in review and 2019 favorites

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lifejayemseyYear in Review, blogging, Y2K, millennium, San Diego, Singapore, New York, New York City, love, travel, oral history, working holiday visa, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Thailand, Taiwan, Cambodia, France, London, Scotland, Costa Rica, Chicago, Portland, LA, mass shootings, democracy, kitten, graduation, Big Bear, Super Mario Odyssey, Arrowhead Village, Nintendo Switch, Super Mario Galaxy, Mandarin duck, hot duck, waterfall, La Fortuna Waterfall, Alajuela, La Fortuna, Monteverde, Chapman University, Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, Gov Ball, Randall's Island Park, ZHU, Florence and the Machine, Fyre Festival, The Strategy Super Sizer Megaclass, Julian Cole, Mark Pollard, Maine, anniversary, sunrise, Alaska, Baltic Sea, Mendenhall Glacier, silent disco, weddings, KAABOO, influencers, Snoop Dogg, Long Island City, LIC, Pepsi-Cola, Mia, Fish, Christmas, Instagram, housewarming, Samin Nosrat, Salt Fat Acid Heat, scallion pancakes, Molly Yeh, my name is yeh, Bouchon Bakery, laser tag, Ramen Ishida, ramen, Chinatown, How Sweet Eats, Shu Jiao Fu Zhou Cuisine, Bar Pa Tea, Oscar Wilde, tea, Burp Bowl Café, KitKat, Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Obama, The Immortalists, Chloe Benjamin, Educated, Tara Westover, Intimations, Alexandra Kleeman, The New York Times, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, Jia Tolentino, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Matthew Desmond, The New Yorker, millennials, gentrification, San Francisco, The Pudding, happiness, Ariana Grande, cultural appropriation, E. Jean Carroll, gaslighting, sexual assault, Central Park Five, grocery store, taxi, Aperol spritz, culture, pop culture, Gamergate, Allbirds, Uniqlo, Krave Beauty, Great Barrier Relief, Kale-lalu-yAHA, Stratia Liquid Gold, gua sha, Lauren Singer, zero-waste, Great Jones, Dutch oven, Secret Eyelash NYC, Dyson, Decrypto, Los Espookys, Booksmart, Hustlers, The Hustlers at Scores, The Haunting of Hill House, Cambodian Rock Band, Cambodian Genocide, Fleabag, Parasite, Luigi's Mansion 3Comment
a short oral history of us
a short oral history of us

A collection of stories from my family about how we came to be

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lifejayemseyThe Joy Luck Club, Hispanic Heritage Month, Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, United Shades of America, W. Kamau Bell, Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates, hashtag, Frasier, Get Out, Anthony Bourdain, oral history, Hong Kong, New Jersey, ye ye, nai nai, China, Chinatown, Brunei, Malaysia, Chin Wing Laundry, Chinese, Chinese-American, Chinese food, discrimination, racism, Borneo, Columbia University, Jersey Shore, Long Beach Island, Kojak, Milton the Monster, Barbie, ice skating, Atlantic City, A&W, fishing, fish, The Four Seas, Ging Hawk Club, MOCA, NYU, SUNY Buffalo, Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, California, LA, San Francisco, Dish of Salt, Crazy Rich Asians, Greece, UCLA, Sony, Japantown, SF VA Medical Center, Sharp Hospital, Hello Judge, stroke, Palm Springs, vacation, Palacio, Colverhurst, Montemar, Greenwillow, Wii, Game Boy, blanket fort, Tumbles, birthday parties, travel, Princess Cruises, Pompeii, Hawaii, Chapman UniversityComment
postcards from new york, no. 1: brooklyn hustle
postcards from new york, no. 1: brooklyn hustle

Memoirs of a lil California girl in the Big Apple

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lifejayemseycockroaches, subway, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Bridge, Williamsburg, creative strategy, Creative Strategy Bootcamp, Griffin Farley's Beautiful Minds, BBH, Madwell, New York City, New York, gentrification, aliveness, Grand Central, Chinatown, NYPL, Chrissy Teigen, Google, Vox, Quartz, Facebook, humzadeas, ambidextrous, strategy, Be My Eyes, Smorgasburg, Outer Borough, Vaquero, The Good Batch, Dulcinea, Brooklyn Flea, Dumbo, Prospect Park, Central Park, Taiyaki NYC, Totto Ramen, LinkedInComment
baby, it's cold outside: chicago & new york travel blog
baby, it's cold outside: chicago & new york travel blog

Discovering a new love for deep-dish pizza and snow flurries, and catching up with old friends in New York

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traveljayemseyChicago, New York City, gentrification, Lake Michigan, Magnificent Mile, Northwestern, Chicago Riverwalk, Lou Malnati's, snow, The Bean, Cloud Gate, Art Institute of Chicago, impressionism, Monet, Cézanne, Picasso, Hoosier Mama's Pie Shop, pie flights, pie, Chicago Public Library, Skydeck Chicago, hot dog, Downtown Dogs, Giordano's, New York, Second Avenue Subway, dim sum, Chinatown, Momofuku Milk Bar, b'day truffles, Columbus Circle, Times Square, The Plaza, Tiffany's, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Melt Shop, The Penrose, Duke's, Central Park, Levain Bakery, Carroll Place, Greenwich Village, Smorgasburg, Luke's Lobster, Lady M, Meatpacking District, The High Line, Ample Hills Creamery, Chelsea Market, Hudson River, Washington Square Park, Spot Dessert Bar, molten chocolate lava cake, Beer Authority, Shake Shack, Union Square, Artists & Fleas, van Gogh, the Louvre Comments
festival of lights: kuala lumpur travel blog
festival of lights: kuala lumpur travel blog

My weekend in Malaysia for Diwali—a fish spa, some temple selfies, and the accidental kind-of crashing of a wedding

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traveljayemseyKuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Diwali, Deepavali, Thailand, Southeast Asia, Singapore, Aerotrain, airport, Petronas Twin Towers, Serenity Hostels, Bukit Bintang, Changkat Bukit Bintang, night market, nasi lemak, Hong Kong, mangosteen, Muslim, POSSIBLE, Batu Caves, limestone, temples, Hindu, weddings, monkeys, oil lamps, roti prata, National Mosque, Central Market, Chinatown, Sri Mahamariamman, Sri Mariamman, fireworks, Public House, fish spa, Little India, firecrackers, Old Town White Coffee, Pavilion Comments